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IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD 5) will be held on Sept. 21-24, 2011, Xi’an China.

IEEE CLOUD 4 will be held on Jul. 5-10, Washington D.C., USA.

2011 IEEE ICWS/SCC/SERVICES and 4th IEEE CLOUD will be co-located on July 5-10, 2011, Washington DC, USA.

IEEE ICWS 9
IEEE SCC 8
IEEE CLOUD 4
IEEE SERVICES 7

CLOUD 2010 Best Paper Award

“Secure Virtual Machine Execution under an Untrusted OS”
Chunxiao Li, Anand Raghunathan, and Niraj K. Jha (Princeton Universithy, Purdue University, USA)

The 2010 IEEE International Services Cup Winner List:

1st Place for the paper titled
“The Service Security LAB: A Model-Driven Platform to Compose and Test Services in the Cloud”, Michael Menzel, Robert Warschofsky, Ivonne Thomas, and Christoph Meinel (Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany).

2nd Place for the paper titled
“Accountability as a Service for the Cloud”, Jinhui Yao, Shiping Chen, Chen Wang, David Levy, and John Zic (University of Sydney, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia)

3rd Place for the paper titled
“Moving Text Analysis Tools to the Cloud”, Himanshu Vashishtha, Mike Smit, and Eleni Stroulia (University of Alberta, Canada)

4th Place for the paper titled
“REST-based SOA Application in the Cloud: A Text Correction Service Case Study”, Wubin Li and Petter Svard (Umea University, Sweden)

July 5-10, 2010, Miami, FL, USA

IEEE ICWS/SCC/CLOUD/SERVICES 2010 Final Advance Program is published under the website of each conference.

You don’t need to print out and carry with you. The colored booklet will be provided at registration desk.

Plenary Poster Session has been scheduled at 16:30-20:30 on July 6, 2010. Details of this new event can be found at IEEE SERVICES 2010 site:
http://www.servicescongress.org/2010/plenaryposter.html

Accepted plenary poster session papers will automatically have pre-allocated poster board and space. In addition, authors of all four conferences are welcome to request poster boards and display presentations throughout the week.

IEEE ICWS/SCC/CLOUD/SERVICES 2010 proudly announce our keynote speakers. Please check their details at the Keynote section of the conferences.

IEEE ICWS/SCC/CLOUD/SERVICES 2010 Hotel Reservation is now open. Please check the Hotel section.

IEEE ICWS/SCC/CLOUD/SERVICES 2010 Tentative Advance Program is available under the Advance Program section in every conference’s website.

We just received notifications from the IEEE CS Press. When authors of accepted papers submit the camera-ready papers to the IEEE FTP site, please skip the PDF eXpress validation step and submit the papers directly. IEEE CS Press will conduct manual checking later.

IEEE CLOUD 2010 Research Track has decided to accept the following papers, sorted by paper id. The acceptance rate is 20%.

2409 Enterprise Cloud Service Architecture
2434 Social Cloud: Cloud Computing in Social Networks
2481 Secure Virtual Machine Execution under an Untrusted Management OS
2590 Characterizing Cloud Federation for Enhancing Providers’ Profit
2741 THEMIS: Towards mutual-verifiable billing transaction for cloud computing environment
2747 Flexible Data Access in a Cloud based on Freshness Requirements
2795 Reducing Costs of Spot Instances via Checkpointing in the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
2805 Storage Management in Virtualized Cloud Environment
2814 Data Intensive Query Processing for Large RDF Graphs Using Cloud Computing Tools
2842 Maximizing Cloud Providers Revenues via Energy Aware Allocation Policies
2844 Using Cloud Technologies to Optimize Data-Intensive Service Applications
2847 Model-based planning for state-related changes to Infrastructure and Software as a Service instances in large data centers
2849 Autonomic Management of Cloud Service Centers with Availability Guarantees
2855 Integrating Resource Consumption and Allocation for Infrastructure Resources on-Demand
2870 Cost-Optimal Scheduling in Hybrid IaaS Clouds for Deadline Constrained Workloads
2881 Towards Living Landscape Models: Automated Integration of Infrastructure Cloud in Enterprise Architecture Management
2883 Data Flow Driven Scheduling of BPEL Workflows Using Cloud Resources
2885 Metadata Partitioning for Large-Scale Distributed Storage Systems
2891 A Review of Cloud Business Models and Sustainability
2896 Mining Twitter in the Cloud: A Case Study
2904 Understanding Performance Interference of I/O Workload in Virtualized Cloud Environments
2908 FlexPRICE: Flexible Provisioning of Resources in a Cloud Environment
2911 Towards Self-assisted Troubleshooting for the Deployment of Private Clouds
2915 Preventing Information Leakage from Indexing in the Cloud
2921 Cloud Computing: A Digital Libraries Perspective
2933 Workload Migration into Clouds – Challenges, Experiences, Opportunities
2934 Fault Tolerance Middleware for Cloud Computing
2936 Performance Measurements and Analysis of Network I/O Applications in Virtualized Cloud
2937 Dynamic Resource Allocation in Computing Clouds using Distributed Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis
2938 Adaptive Data Migration in Multi-tiered Storage Based Cloud Environment

CLOUD 2010 Program Committee is finalizing all reviews and discussions. All CLOUD 2010 notifications will be sent out within a week, first research track, then industry and application track, then other tracks and workshops.

Please take a look at our video promo of CLOUD 2010 on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFFSD9jUY8o

CLOUD 2010 proudly announce our Program Committee. Please take a look at our program committee at conference website at: http://www.thecloudcomputing.org/2010/org.html.

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***********Industry Sponsored Special Registration Week (9/12/2009-9/19/2009)******
Call for Participation
Services University
Fall School on Cloud Computing
9/21/2009 (Monday)

Sponsored by Services Society
Co-located with IEEE 2009 International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD-II 2009)
Bangalore, India (http://thecloudcomputing.org/2009/2)

Registration Fee:
CLOUD/SCC/SERVICES 2009 Participants
* $100 (9/12/2009-9/19/2009)

Non CLOUD/SCC/SERVICES 2009 Participants
* $120 (9/12/2009-9/19/2009)

IEEE SCC/SERVICES-II/CLOUD-II 2009 Advance Program tentative version (8/19/2009) can now be downloaded under the Advance Program sections of the conferences.

Table of Contents of the three conferences (8/19 version) can also be downloaded under the Advance Program sections of the corresponding conferences.

SCC/SERVICES-II/CLOUD-II 2009 Hotel Reservation Information (with conference rate):

Executive Room: INR Rs 6000/- (EP-Room Only )+ 15 % tax per room per night.
Suites: INR Rs 7500/- /- (EP-Room Only )+ 15 % tax per room per night.
Two Bedrooms Suite: 2 suite room, tariff will be applicable
Extra person in Suite @ INR RS 2000/- /- (EP-Room Only )+ 15 % tax per room per night
($1=48.225 Rupee: 7/28/2009)

Hotel will accept reservations made by telephone at 91-080-25001153-55 or 91-9845279961. Meeting attendees will reference SCC/SERVICES when making reservations. Reservations can also be made through email: zen@prestigeconstructions.com.

Photos taken at ICWS/SERVICES-I/CLOUD-I 2009, LA, have been uploaded to ICWS 2009 website organized by the dates taken:

http://conferences.computer.org/icws/2009/

New: ICWS 2009 Photo Gallery